(8 days until Christmas!!)
Hello people, I hope that you’ve been having a lovely day! Welcome back to blogmas 😉
For today’s post, I have decided I want to write on a certain topic I’ve got to especially thinking about today. So, not necessarily oriented around Christmas, but just a thought I had that I now shall turn into a rant. *nods* I think it’s what I do best. 😉
I want to write on being open to beauty.
Today I worked on putting together a video montage of basically my whole 2021 in review. I managed to find so many photos and video clips put together that still just barely seem to scratch the surface of what this year was for me. I looked back on all those, and actually forgot about the many blessings and memories I had. I was on the brink of tears as all these moments came back to me; it was all beautiful. It can be so easy to complain about all the disappointments and chaos this year brought, that we miss each of the good moments. Now looking back on all the good and all the blessings God gave me this year, it completely outweighs that.
Really, this year has been beautiful in every way, and so much more after learning how to be open to all the ways that this life can be beautiful. What I mean is we often put a limit on our own lives, on our own success, on our own happiness. We often put God in a box, also putting a limit on His works. We do this when we begin to compare our lives to the lives and happiness of others. We see what they have and the happiness they contain and suddenly, we begin to think the only way to be happy is to have the exact same kind of beauty their lives hold. All of this stems from comparison. Oh, what a misconception this is.
You see, God works in more than one way. God makes things beautiful in more than just one way. Oh how long it has taken me to really see that. But when we begin to put a limit in place, we close off our minds completely so that we are blind to all the ways that God has already made our life beautiful. We are too busy searching for the kind of happiness someone else has, that we miss the happiness that God has already placed in front of us. Our own selfish desires tend to get in the way of that. We are so set on what we think will truly fulfill our happiness, that we refuse to accept anything else.
Do not put a limit on God! Our God is limitless and works in wondrous ways. He makes nothing but beauty, so why would you think He would make your life anything less? He has given you everything you need to thrive right now. He has given you everything you need to find the happiness you seek. If you create limits and close yourself off to the many ways this life can be beautiful, you’ll miss it all. Do not put a limit on your happiness based on someone else’s idea of what that should look like.
God is a perfect provider. He knows exactly what you need to be able to grow in each season. He knows what to give you, and He knows when He must take things. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense. But it was never meant to. We will never completely understand everything; we are not God.
But He knows. He sees. He understands. There is no one kind of beauty. Beauty is in the little things, and now I can see so much of that. God can bring you such wonderful things, if you would just be open enough for Him to work in ways that you cannot imagine. Yes, the unknown is scary. Handing it over to Him and trusting Him with the outcome is a frightening thing sometimes. But there is no better person to trust than Him. The creator of all beautiful things. He is far more trustworthy than yourself. Yes we can create such big plans and in our minds they work out perfectly, but really that’s never how it plays out. Because God can give us so much more than our own imaginations. Be open, and you will see all the ways He is working even now. Be open to the beauty of the immeasurable amount of ways He works.
Collecting wildflower bouquets, watching a butterfly float past, dancing with friends to a blasting stereo, a beautiful summertime cloud with sunlight shining bright behind it, late night calls, golden sun on my bedroom wall giving its morning greetings, fireworks in a dark sky, watching lightning out on the back deck, listening to the music of a thunderstorm, being goof balls late at night, laughing to a funny podcast, hugs captured and to be kept, a family hay ride, and millions and millions of other moments that hold a kind of beauty that I cannot describe. This is where I am planted. This is my happiness.
This is beautiful.
Sunshine & Rain 
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